Share time has been a focus of mine over the last couple of years in writing and reading workshop. I know that kids LOVE to have the opportunity to share their work and be recognized for things they have worked on or done well. I have been doing a share time for years that basically [...]
Books for Childhood – A Side Project
I hope you don’t mind, but I am going to share one of my projects that doesn’t relate to my teaching life, but rather to my mothering life. Teachers are often parents too, and I want to share a project that I just finished that I am immensely proud of. Last year my beautiful daughter [...]
Readers Notice Punctuation Marks
In reading workshop I just taught the lesson “readers notice punctuation marks.” My kids really enjoy this, and they do a wonderful job finding punctuation in their books. However, it is a little trickier to get them to use punctuation to make their reading fluent. Of course, practice is the best way… Here is one of [...]
Opinions and Evidence
We are in the middle of our opinion writing unit. In my district we have decided to have kindergartners focus on sharing opinions about books, and the kids are meant to do it in the form of letters. There are lots of lessons that are required for this, but I find that the most important [...]
Mancala and More Math Mania!
I played one of my favorite games with my kindergartners today – mancala! This is a classic game that is played around the world. It is an example of a game that is fun, requires strategic thinking, and teaches and reinforces so much curriculum! In February and March we do a lot of work with [...]
Basketball, Numbers, and Ten Frames, Oh My!
A few weeks ago I posted about the sight word basketball game I created for my class. It has been wildly successful, and my kids absolutely love it. So, as with any good idea, I decided I wanted to get the most out of it that I can. I altered the game a bit to [...]
Ten Frame Fun!
We work with ten frames during this time of year to help kids with one to one correspondence, counting, addition, subtraction, and more. I have a game in mind that I want to do with my kids, so I really wanted to ramp up their competence with ten frames and numbers to 30. I developed [...]
Teaching Them to Tie
I go back and forth on shoe tying. Some years I decide that shoe tying is not on my list of things to teach, and I toss it back into the parents’ court. Other years I decide that it might be worth my while to invest in helping my little ones become competent at tying. [...]
Water Dropper Experiment
We are still in the middle of our inquiry process science unit, and we are loving it! This is a quick experiment I did with small groups during center time. It is so simple, yet has so many great benefits! The experiment is simply to predict how many drops of water can fit on a [...]
A Conference on Heroism
I want to share news of an amazing opportunity I think every educator (and every parent, every middle or high school student, and every concerned citizen) should know about. It is no secret that bullying is a plague in our society. It exists in every school, and also in hundreds of work places. It is a [...]
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